We've been having a great time use Flip video cameras at the school where I teach. We have students video tape their robots (one-button recording, no memory cards), plug the camera directly into a laptop (no wires needed), and then upload to our school account at Blip.tv. Then, take the little code snippet, pop it into our EdTech blog, or our Moodle, and the video is ready to go. Simple. Effective. Awesome.
Now, Flip came out with the Flip HD, and David Pogue put up a great video review. Do yourself a favor, get one of these for the holidays for a few hundred dollars (or less for the cheaper ones), and forget about all that klunky old video hardware.